As an antidote to despair, we pick up plastics from Oregon beaches and make educational art! Community members of all ages are working together to gather the beach plastics and construct giant sculptures of the marine animals most affected by the plastic pollution. Since the inception of the project, 1000s of pounds of plastic pollution have been processed into art supplies by Washed Ashore.
The Washed Ashore Exhibit is now on display!
Newport Visual Arts Center: 777 NW Beach Drive, Newport, Oregon.
www.coastarts.org ~ 541.265.6540
Artist/Educator Angela Haseltine Pozzi orchestrates the construction of towering, aesthetically striking sculptures of marine life that form a traveling exhibit of art and environmental education. An interdisciplinary environmental arts curriculum and a feature-length documentary accompany this work.
The exhibit also features a replica oil spill, a walk-through oceanic gyre replica, a styrofoam coral reef, and a series of masks.
